Surrounded by offerings that she and others have carried to this temple, a woman bows again and again at the conclusion of her prayers. The room was dark, which mean using a very slow shutter speed, in this case 1/6th of a second. A tripod is out of the question – as part of a tour group, I am moving and shooting at a pace that simply will not allow such time-consuming tools. I never use a flash either. I find it intrusive, harsh, and unnatural looking. I did not increase the ISO because I did not feel it was necessary. Given the self-imposed limitations of my decisions, I still must try to make the most stable images I can with hand held exposures. My Panasonic FZ-20 has image stabilization, which gives me the same kind of stabilization here that I could expect if I was shooting at 1/25th of a second. My goal is to keep the surroundings sharp, yet also express the devotion of this woman by blurring her as she bows deeply, again and again. I achieved this goal in this image – the woman seems to flow through space as she moves her body back and forth, yet the flowers, candles, tiles, and even her purse on the floor next to her remain sharp. To do this, I cradled the camera in my palm and gently applied pressure to the shutter button. I never pushed it, simply squeezed it.